8:00 AM Registration opened

9:00 AM Welcome & Opening Address

9:45 AM Recognizing Contest Winners

In 2016, Climate CoLab sourced 579 proposals on how to tackle 17 unique aspects of the climate change challenge, including how to reduce emissions from the aviation industry, how to inspire the public to take climate action, how to adapt to climate change, and many more.

From these, 27 top proposals from over 10 countries were selected for their novelty, feasibility, presentation, desirability, and impact on climate change. Join us in congratulating the 2016 Climate CoLab winners!

10:00 am Breakout Session #1

Attendees heard from and interacted directly with the winning teams as they presented their work to a live and global audience. Presentations were followed by a highly interactive workshop.

Attendees could select which of the following concurrent breakout sessions to join each hour:

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Localizing Energy (Room 3 & 4)

Inspiring the Public (Room 5 & 6)

15 minute break

11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Transforming Transportation (Room 3 & 4)

MIT Campus & Region (Room 5 & 6)

12:30 am Community Lunch

Climate CoLab winners and participants mingled and other experts and attendees over lunch. Tables featured topics so that people with similar interests could sit together.

5:30 - 6:30 pm Evening Reception

MIT Media Lab Informal networking and hors d'oeuvres were served, open to all conference attendees.

Thursday, September 29, 2016

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Unconference Sessions

MIT Samberg Center

In this highly interactive morning session, attendees met and built connections with other climate innovators. Through a facilitated "unconference", they could host or join short breakout sessions to delve deeper into topics that are of greatest relevance, interest and importance to them.

In these sessions, you could:

- Network with other attendees in a meaningful way - Explore more deeply the themes introduced at the conference - Bring up new topics or issues that were not addressed - Share research, projects, businesses and/or Climate CoLab proposal ideas with others, get feedback, and explore how to make them happen

Attendees were given the opportunity to move freely between discussion topics as well as generate their own.

Facilitated by Bob Halperin, president of Alumni Forum Services and Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.

Morning beverages were served but please note that lunch is not included.

Climate CoLab has teamed up with Solve CoLab to run this contest. To participate, click "OK" below. When you save your proposal, you'll be able to see and make changes to it on either site – all edits and comments will be synced between the two platforms. We'll even create a linked account so you can log into Solve CoLab with your Climate CoLab username and password. It's easy!